[PATCH 0/2] enhance telemetry list endpoint with device name

[fengchengwen]

On 5/20/2026 1:40 PM, Morten Brørup wrote:
>> From: Chengwen Feng [mailto:fengchengwen at huawei.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 20 May 2026 05.57
>>
>> Currently, the /dmadev/list and /ethdev/list telemetry endpoints return
>> only integer IDs, making it hard to identify devices. This series
>> changes
>> both to output strings in "ID    NAME" format for better usability.
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> For machine reading of the JSON output, it would be better returning an object with an integer and a string field, {ID, "NAME"}.

The TEL_DICT could do {"ID", "NAME"}, which like:
  "/ethdev/list": {
    "0": "0000:7d:00.0",
    "1": "0000:7d:00.1"
  }

Maybe we could add one TEL_INT_DICT which is int-value pairs, we may get:
  "/ethdev/list": {
    0: "0000:7d:00.0",
    1: "0000:7d:00.1"
  }

I prefer the first one, However, the capacity is reduced from 512 (RTE_TEL_MAX_ARRAY_ENTRIES) to 256 (RTE_TEL_MAX_DICT_ENTRIES), but I think it is enough.

What's your opinion?

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